The girls, Moon-Face and Silky, got out of their carriages.

They had
been rather frightened the last part of the journey, but they thought Jo
was very clever to drive the train by himself.
They all left the station. "Now what shall we do?" said Moon-Face.
"I want to ride on an elephant," said Fanny at once.
"There aren't any," said Bessie. But no sooner had she spoken than the
children saw six big grey elephants walking solemnly up to them,
swaying a little from side to side.
"Oh, look, look!" yelled Fanny, nearly mad with excitement. "There are
my elephants. Six of them! We can all have a ride!"
Each elephant had a rope ladder up its left side. The children, Moon-
Face and Silky climbed up and sat on a comfortable seat on the
elephant's backs. Then the big creatures set off, swaying through the
crowds.
It was simply lovely. Fanny did enjoy herself. She called to the others.
"Wasn't this a good idea of mine, everybody? Aren't we high up? And
isn't it fun?"
"It is fun," said Moon-Face, who had never even seen art elephant
before, and would certainly never have thought of riding on one if he
had. "Oh, goodness-my rope ladder has slipped off my elephant! Now I
shall never be able to get down! I'll have to ride on this elephant all my
life long!"
Everybody laughed-but Moon-Face was really alarmed. When the
children had had enough of riding they all climbed down their rope
ladders-but poor Moon-Face sat up high, tears pouring down his fat
cheeks.
"I tell you I can't get down," he kept saying. "I'm up here for good!"
The elephant stood patiently for a little while. Then it got tired of
hearing Moon-Face cry. It
swung its enormous trunk round, wound it gently round Moon-Face's
waist, and lifted him down to the ground. Moon-Face was so surprised
that he couldn't speak a word.
At last he found his tongue. "What did the elephant lift me down with?"
he asked. "His nose!"
"No, his trunk," said Jo, laughing. "Didn't you know that elephants had
trunks, Moon-Face?"
"No," said Moon-Face, puzzled. "I'm glad he didn't pack me in his
trunk and take me away for luggage!"
The children roared with laughter. They watched the big elephants
walking off.
"What shall we do now?" said Jo. "Dick, what do you want to do?"
"Well, I know I can't do it -but wouldn't I just love to have a paddle in
the sea!" said Dick.
"Oooh-that would be nice!" said Fanny, who loved paddling too. "But
there isn't any sea here."
Just as she said that she noticed a sign-post near by. It pointed away
from them and said, in big letters, "TO THE SEA."
"Goodness!" said Fanny. "Look at that! Come on, everyone!"
Off they all went, running the way that the signpost pointed. And, after
going round two corners, there,-sure enough, was the blue, blue sea,